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  • I know I always revert to Premier Figuier, Extrait de Songe, Jardin sur le Nil, O de Lancome, Pur desir de Gardenia, Fleurs d'oranger and A la Nuit for summer evenings and a few others I might be forgetting right ow.

    Summer Essentials Ayala Sender 2008

  • Posted October 30, 2006 at 11:47 pm | Permalink aunque no me entiendan quiero desir que hasta en Puerto Rico hemos llorado por su partida que descanse en paz autumnavery

    Steve Irwin death video will not be broadcast « raincoaster 2006

  • Once again, prisoner abuse failed to deliver desir ...

    05/27/2004 2004

  • N閍nmoins ils persist鑢ent dans leur projet; et comme je t閙oignois le desir de voir Halep, la ville la plus consid閞able de

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Perhaps it was her own scanty costume, which seemed designed to reveal everything, yet hid all that was most desir - able.

    Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

  • Perhaps it was her own scanty costume, which seemed designed to reveal everything, yet hid all that was most desir - able.

    Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

  • "Mon desir de collaborer avec les premiers Ministres Provinciaux est tout aussi vif que mon desir de collaborer avec le milieu des affaires, le mouvement syndical, et les simples citoyens canadiens."

    An Address Presented During the 1984 Canadian General Election 1984

  • There are also different kinds of education — physical, moral, vocational, public, etc. — but these all involve the forming of desirable dispositions by desir - able methods.

    EDUCATION WILLIAM K. FRANKENA 1968

  • It should also be noted that the last four questions are normative, since they ask what should be done, or what is desir - able, while the first is not.

    EDUCATION WILLIAM K. FRANKENA 1968

  • Je vous assure Monsieur, la reception que vous avec recu indique le desir, non seulement de ceux present, mais de tout homme de bonne volonte dans cette ville, et province, de participer a tenir ouvert le dialogue qui nous unira dans en sens reel.

    The Present Evolution of Quebec, Its Meaning and Its Scope 1964

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